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They never got much more than half-way the second time, we had some fine shots among us & they made nearly every shot tell, it was like shooting rabbits, coming out of a warren, they were just about as helpless, the chaps almost quarreled with one another for the right to stand on the platform's so as they could get a good cut at them many of them got on top & even pulled the parapets down in their eagerness, for a fly at them, this is how a good few got killed, what a time it would have been for a counter-attack, but worse luck we never had the men. General Birdwood told us after that all we could muster was 10,000 men & 40 guns against at least 30,000
Turkish regulars & go gun's pretty big odds, but they could attack for ever if they could attack for ever if they didn't put more dash into their charges, & would never have taken our trenches, during those 2 days Len accounted for 30 Turks & Wagga got about 20 more, he was a very fine shot was Wagga, I never had the opportunity they did for I was in charge of the post we were on, & had to look after the men & see that ammunition was kept up & etc etc but still for all that I got a few though not nearly so many as Len or Wagga bagged. A couple of days after this General Walker congratulated Len on his shooting & his name was taken, I could never understand, why more did not come out of it, he must have lost the